For some debugging purposes, I'd like to be able to manually set the dirty bit of a FAT32 partition to true.
I found tons of information on how to use fsck.vfat to remove the dirty bit, but none on ...

Steps taken:
*Used fdisk to delete the existing root partition and created a new root partition (PV) starting on the same block
*Added the 'a' flag using fdisk to make it bootable as /boot is under ...

To keep the story short, i am taking the easy way out and now trying to mount a partition to recover a few text documents.
I tried to 'sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda4 /mnt' but received this error
sudo ...

How can I check and mark bad blocks on Linux startup? There are a number of options available and most of them require accessing hardware and running live CD's. But I would like to avoid and perform ...

During resizing and moving 2.7TB partition in Gparted, I encountered an error that froze the whole program. (I dont have a screenshot or output from it, as fas as I remember, it was something about ...

I have several vps guests that were created by virt-resize. I do daily backups on the guests by creating a snapshot and rsync file contents. But some of them don't have a clean disk image.
As soon as ...

I just wonder if there are any solutions available at all (Googled for 2 hours).
How to automatically force fsck disks after crash in `systemd`? - does not mean anything.
Setting fsck_y_enable="YES" ...

The ext2/3/4 filesystem checker has two options that seem to be very similar, -p and -y.
Both seem to perform an automatic repair, but the manpage states that -p can exit when it encounters certain ...

Recently, my HDD crashed and I had to run a fsck command. Many files were moved to the lost+found folder and I've retrieved the important ones using find and grep, but I can't find my SQL databases.
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I had some drive errors so I ran e2fsck -cckty to find bad blocks on a 2TB drive. It found some bad blocks at the beginning, but hasn't found any in a day and a half. e2fsck has been running for 40 ...

I'm working with a fanless PC (hundreds of them, in fact) that has debian 6 and 3 partitions( FAT and 2x ext2). The system doesn't have a power button as such so most people tend to yank the plug to ...

I have a disk that has failed to mount on start up. I have commented out the line in fstab to try to diagnose the issue:
# /dev/sdc /media/bigdrive ext4 auto,exec,rw,user,async 0 0
Then rebooted. I ...

On my personal home computer running Kubuntu Linux 13.04 I'm having trouble mounting a partition that is very dear to me. My backup policy is to perform a backup about monthly, so I do have a backup ...

I'm looking for systemd's equivalent to the shutdown -F command.
I know that I can force fsck by adding fsck.mode=force to kernel options or tweak mount count for disks.
I have tried touch /forcefsck ...

I'm using an ssd as the only drive in my laptop (Debian stable).
It seems that SuSE sets mountcount to -1, disabling fsck at boot. The thread linked says that ext4 needn't be fsck'd anyway. Is that ...

I've read to never run fsck when the file system is mounted. What about running fsck -N to only identify but not repair the file system when mounted? Is that dangerous? Is fsck -N known to overload a ...